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Nicaragua |
| Overview Itinerary Why this Trip Trip Leaders |
Overview |
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Itinerary |
| Saturday |
8/23 |
Mid-morning flight from O'Hare. Arrive for dinner and round
one of drinks in the colonial city of Leon. |
| Sunday |
8/24 |
Explore Leon in the morning, hike up the nearby volcano
of Cerro Negro, and finish the day volcano-sledding back down. (Once-in-a-lifetime
experience to kill yourself with glory! See orange-suit photo.) |
| Monday |
8/25 |
Ferry across Lake Nicaragua to the world's largest volcanic
lake island for an afternoon of biking and horseback riding. |
| Tuesday |
8/26 |
Spend the day in the Maderas volcano's cloud forest reserve,
home to parrots, howler monkeys, and other tropical beasts. |
| Wednesday |
8/27 |
Wake up in the half-moon bay of San Juan del Sur (see photo - paradise!)
on the Pacific Coast and head to the pool or beach, drink in hand.
If you surf or want to learn, join the natives on the waves. |
| Thursday |
8/28 |
Another morning of sun, sand and surf followed by an afternoon booze
cruise on a 41-foot yacht. |
| Friday |
8/29 |
Private boat tour of Las Isletas, a volcanic fall-out archipelago.
Travel to Granada for farewell/last-chance dinner. |
| Saturday |
8/30 |
Back to Chicago! |
Why This Trip |
This trip is for you if:
- You like a fun mix of physical activity and partying.
- You enjoy exotic, tropical locales.
- You love the beach.
- You want to sled down the side of a volcano
and ride horseback along the beach.
- You want to see (or join)
Jian in making a fool of himself.
This trip is not for you if:
- You don’t enjoy hiking/don't have a minimum level
of fitness.
- You don’t want to go to a third-world country.
- You’re
allergic to fun.
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Trip Leaders |
 Valerie de Charette
- E-mail: vdechare AT ChicagoGSB.edu
- Hometown: NYC
- Undergrad College: Harvard
- Undergrad Major: French & Francophone
Literature
- Work Experience: Retail: DrJays.com, Macy's Merchandising
Group; this summer: Consulting
- Chicago Booth Concentrations:
International Business, Strategic Management, Marketing Management
- Hobbies:
Drinking, reading novels (not the kind with embossed titles),
watching the worst romantic comedies
- Fun Fact: Hmmm… nothing
appropriate to this forum really comes to mind… you’ll
just have to wait till we’re
in Nicaragua to hear 'em!
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 Jian Yang
- E-mail: jian AT ChicagoGSB.edu
- Hometown: Shanghai, China; New York,
NY
- Undergrad College: Carnegie Mellon University
- Undergrad Major:
Drinking…and double in Finance, International
Relations
- Work Experience: Deloitte Consulting LLP – Strategy & Operations
(Chicago, IL); this summer: Banking
- Chicago Booth Concentrations:
Drinking and Job Hunting
with minors in Finance, Accounting, International Macroeconomics,
joint degree with International Relations (graduating 2010)
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 Aaron Jacobs
- E-mail: ajacobs1 AT ChicagoGSB.edu
- Hometown: Highland Park, IL
- Undergrad College: Univ. of Michigan – Ann
Arbor (Go Blue!)
- Undergrad Major: History, Political Science,
Rick’s
American Cafe
- Work Experience: Newmark Knight Frank – Commercial
Real Estate Brokerage (New York, NY); this summer:
Investment Banking
- Chicago Booth Concentrations: Finance, Accounting, Nintendo
Wii
- Hobbies: Golf, reality television, Chicago Cubs, travel, the
bar (any bar), making fun of Jian
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Fun Fact: Aaron
was lucky enough to have hitchhiked for 15 hours with
a stranger from LaGuardia Airport to Ann Arbor, MI in the
fall of 2006. After his flight to Detroit had been
canceled, there was no way in hell he was going to miss his beloved
college football team, the Michigan Wolverines, destroy
the Michigan State Spartans.
- In case you were wondering,
the answer is no, fortunately we will not be hitchhiking
to Nicaragua.
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 Justin Kane
- E-mail: jkane2 AT ChicagoGSB.edu
- Hometown: Maryville, Tennessee
- Undergrad College: Swarthmore College
- Undergrad Major: Philosophy
- Work Experience: Investigative reporting;
The Advisory Board Company (Healthcare consulting, Washington,
DC); this summer: Buy-Side Investment Management
- Chicago Booth Concentrations:
Accounting, Finance, Economics
- Hobbies: Cooking, eating street
food, reading, soccer, CrossFit, playing dorky video games, watching
(and occasionally helping) Jian make a fool of himself
- Fun Fact:
During last year's Random Walk, I lost my passport
in a dumpster in the Hong Kong airport, inadvertently
took everyone to a brothel in Saigon, rode on the back of a drug
dealer’s
moped, and crashed my bike while trying to
eat a steamed bun I bought from a random woman's house in
the Mekong. So it should reassure you to know that I'm
the responsible one on this trip.
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